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CHAPTER 1
GENERAL ASSESSMENT
Learning Objectives
After completed this chapter, students will be able to:
1. Use expressions for collecting demographic data
2. Use questions to collect current and past health‐illness data
Part 1 Æ Collecting Demographic Data Elements
Vocabulary
Surname
Next of kin
Assess
Assessment
Useful Expression
a) Implementation step
Study these expressions to initiate communication
Explaining what you are going to do immediately.
• It is time for me to ……….
• I just want to ……….
• I would like to ………. interview you
• I am going to ………. assess your health condition
• I need to ……….
b) Question to collect demographic data elements
Study and practice these useful expressions
Question To Ask
NAME What is your name?
What is your complete name?
What is your surname?
AGE How old are you?
ADDRESS What is your address?
Where do you live?
PHONE Your phone number, please
What is your phone number?
Do you have a mobile phone number?
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MARITAL STATUS Are you married?
HEALTH INSURANCE Do you have any health insurance?
OCCUPPPATION & TITLE What is your occupation?
Do you have any academic title?
What is your title?
What do you do?
NEXT OF KIN Who is your next of kin?
REASON FOR CONTACT*) What brings you in this hospital?
Who sends you to this hospital?
What makes you come to this hospital?
*) It is a reason that makes you come to hospital. It can be a chief complaint, medical
checkup.
ACTIVITY 1 Æ ROLE PLAYS
Task. Pair Work
• Interview your partner
• Fill in the blanks with his/her personal demographic data
Name :
Age :
Sex :
Address :
City, State :
Phone :
Religion :
Marital Status :
Health Insurance :
Current Occupation and :
Title
Next of Kin :
Reason for contact :
Date, time of contact :
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Part 2 Æ Current‐Health and Illness Status
Useful Expressions: Assessment step
Study these questions
CURRENT HEALTH STATUS
• What do you think about your health?
• Would you tell me about your health condition recently?
Sample of patient’s response: “I’m usually healthy, have usual cold,
and have to take medicine for high blood pressure”
ELIMINATION PATTERN
• Would you tell me about your ………?
• How many times a day do you do your ………?
• Do you have any problem with your ………?
bowel movement?
waterworks?
• Is the stool formed or loosed?
• Is your waterworks sluggish?
Part 3 Æ History of Past Health and Illnesses
Useful Expressions
Assessment Step: Asking Common Communicable Disease
• Have you ever had + a kind of disease……?
Response: Yes, I have/No, I haven’t
• How old were you when you got it?
Response: I was about ……years old
• Are you allergic to……(a certain food/medication)
(Example: Are you allergic to penicillin/antibiotic)
Kinds of diseases: measles‐mumps‐chicken pox‐rubella‐rheumatic‐fever‐diphtheria‐scarlet
fever‐polio‐tuberculosis
Assessment Step: Asking about Immunizations
• Have you ever been immunized against + (a kind of disease)?
• Have you ever got……+ (a kind of disease)…….immunizations?
Example: Have you ever got polio immunizations?
ACTIVITY 2 Æ ROLE PLAYS
Task. Pair Work
Assess your partner current health condition by using question listed above
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CHAPTER 2
DIMENSION OF SYMPTOMS
Learning objectives
After completed this chapter, students will be able to:
1. Give communicative response to patient’s complaint
2. Ask the dimensions of symptoms
Vocabulary
Dull
Stabbing
Sharp
Aching
Aggravating factors
Alleviating factors
Useful expressions
Task. Study and practice these useful expressions
LOCATION
• Where do you feel it?
• Does it move around?
QUALITY OR CHARACTER
• Show me where.
• What is it like? Is it sharp, dull, stabbing, aching?
• Do you feel ….?
• What does the pain look like?
• When did it last?
SEVERITY
• On a scale of 0 to 10, with ten the worst, how would you rate what you feel
right now?
• What was the worst it has been?
• Does this interfere your usual activities? In what ways?
TIMING
• When did you first notice it?
• How long does it last?
• How often does it happen?
SETTING
• Does it occur in a particular place or under certain circumstances?
• Have you taken anything for it?
• Does it appear in particular time?
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TASK
1. Make a complete conversation to explore the dimensions of symptom
2. Take one case only
Case 1
A patient with anorexia nervosa expresses:
• I don’t want to have a lot of meal
• I don’t want to be plump
• My arms and legs are getting fat
• I have difficulty in bowel motion
• I feel nausea
• I want to vomit
• Food makes my stomach upset
• I am afraid of being fat
Case 2
A patient suspected with appendicitis expresses:
• I feel pain around my navel
• I feel pain around here (in the lower right spot of my abdomen)
• I feel a sharp pain
• Don’t touch my stomach, it increases my pain
• I feel feverish
• I feel nausea
• I vomit
• I lose my appetite
• I vomit frequently after meals
• I have recurrent pain in my lower part of my stomach
• It becomes more painful if I do the squatting bowel motion
“Success is climbing a mountain, facing the challenge of obstacles, and reaching the top
of mountain”
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